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Early Modern · 1679
Order and Disorder
Lucy Hutchinson · 1620–1681
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What it is
A verse meditation on Genesis from creation to the patriarchs, published anonymously and offering a markedly different account of Eve from Milton's.
Why it lasted
Attributed to its author only in 2001, it is now recognised as one of the major religious poems by a woman in English.
Scripture it works from
Where to read it
Public domain and free to read in full, though not held here. The archives below have it.
These open a search on each archive rather than a direct link, which is the honest way to point at an edition nobody here has checked line by line.
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